Robert C. Baker invented the chicken nugget in the 1950s while working as a food science professor at Cornell University. He called his creation the "Chicken Crispie", which was a small piece of chicken coated in batter and then deep fried. Baker solved common meat industry problems of the time by developing a coating that made ground meat hold together without skin and a batter that remained on the meat during both deep frying and freezing.

1. Chicken nugget

2. The chicken nugget was invented in the 1950s by Robert C. Baker, a food
science professor at Cornell University, and published as an academic
work.This bite sized piece of chicken, coated in batter and then deep fried
was called the "Chicken Crispie" by Baker and his associates. Common
problems the meat industry were facing at the time of this invention were
being able to hold ground meat together without a skin and producing a
batter that could handle being both deep fried and frozen without coming
off of the desired meat. Baker was able to solve both problems by first
coating the meat in vinegar, salt, grains, and milk powder to make it hold
together and secondly using an egg and grain based batter that was able
to be fried as well as frozen.